{"id":182,"date":"2005-01-03T09:08:27","date_gmt":"2005-01-03T14:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=182"},"modified":"2005-01-03T09:14:09","modified_gmt":"2005-01-03T14:14:09","slug":"pew-on-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/pew-on-blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Pew on Blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\">The Pew Center&#8217;s Internet and American Life Project<\/a> just released one of their more or less well-formed studies (one problem: they often use telephone surveys and those surveys have inherent difficulties in that they don&#8217;t often reach cell phone only people or people who are not at home much etc) &#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/PPF\/r\/144\/report_display.asp\"> this one on the state of blogs<\/a>. The paper is only in PDF format, but is worth a read.<\/p>\n<p>The abstract says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By the end of 2004 blogs had established themselves as a key part of online culture. Two surveys by the Pew Internet &#038; American Life Project in November established new contours for the blogosphere: 8 million American adults say they have created blogs; blog readership jumped 58% in 2004 and now stands at 27% of internet users; 5% of internet users say they use RSS aggregators or XML readers to get the news and other information delivered from blogs and content-rich Web sites as it is posted online; and 12% of internet users have posted comments or other material on blogs. Still, 62% of internet users do not know what a blog is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who are bloggers (according to Pew):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Men: 57% are male<\/li>\n<li>Young: 48% are under age 30<\/li>\n<li>Broadband users: 70% have broadband at home<\/li>\n<li>Internet veterans: 82% have been online for six years or more<\/li>\n<li>Relatively well off financially: 42% live in households earning over $50,000 <\/li>\n<li>Well educated: 39% have college or graduate degrees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Growth in blog-readers far outpaced the growth in blogs themselves. <em>&#8220;Still, since [Pew&#8217;s] survey in February, there has been greater-than-average growth in blog readership among women, minorities, those between the ages of 30 and 49, and those with home dialup connection.&#8221;<\/em> There is a nice chart that is difficult to extract from the PDF that shows the reader and blogger trends from July 02 to November 04.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pew Center&#8217;s Internet and American Life Project just released one of their more or less well-formed studies (one problem: they often use telephone surveys and those surveys have inherent difficulties in that they don&#8217;t often reach cell phone only people or people who are not at home much etc) &#8212; this one on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-information-commons","category-virtual-communities","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}